A FRAMEWORK FOR SHARED SPATIAL REALITY

The world is
the interface.

A digital layer grounded in physical reality.
Open, interoperable, and built to persist.

Explore the Augmentiverse: an AR-first framework connecting spatial technologies, open standards and the places we share.

Understand the concept Explore technologies

Grounded in researchElmqaddem · iJET · 2026

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THE SPATIAL CONSTELLATION01 — 24

AR MR Anchors Spatial WebXR AR OpenXR glTF VR XR Twins AI IoT Edge 5G / 6G 3D WebXR OpenUSD WebGL WebGPU DID VC MEC Geo 3D Tiles

Augmented realityExperience · Digital information, situated in the physical world.

Explore connections

A constellation of ideas. Select a topic to follow its connections.

PHYSICAL WORLD PERSISTENT DIGITAL PRESENCEDiscover the framework ↓

01 / The foundations

Three principles.
One shared reality.

Meet the framework

AR-first

Physical reality, first.

Digital experiences enrich the world we inhabit. Physical places, people and objects remain the foundation.

Interoperability

Open by architecture.

Shared standards connect devices, content and identity. The aim is a spatial layer that can cross platform boundaries.

Spatial persistence

Presence that persists.

Digital content stays associated with a place, across sessions and users. Persistence is a design commitment, not an automatic property of AR.

02 / A place on the spectrum

Reality remains the reference.

Understand the continuum

Mixed reality the region between real and virtual

Physical
realityAugmented
realityAugmented
virtualityVirtual
reality

← Augmentiverse emphasis: reality-anchored →

Conceptual diagram, not a quantitative scale. Based on the 1994 reality–virtuality taxonomy and its companion AR paper. Contemporary uses of “MR” may be narrower.

03 / The technology landscape

Explore the spatial stack.

All 12 technologies

Foundational

Augmented reality

Digital information, situated in the physical world.

Experience

Foundational

Mixed reality

Physical and digital elements share a spatial frame.

Experience

Spatial

Foundational

Spatial computing

Computation that refers to real objects and spaces.

Spatial systems

Anchors

Foundational

Spatial anchoring

Keeping digital content connected to a physical place.

Spatial systems

04 / Open standards

Shared foundations.
Connected possibilities.

Discover the standards

From runtime to content and identity, interoperability is built layer by layer. Explore what each specification does — and what it does not guarantee.

OpenXR

Runtime